Guild Wars 2

Not having played tPvP for 4 or 5 months since I bunkered on my Guardian for my Guild team getting into the top 300 (doesnt mean anything, I know), I now only and exclusively play my Elementalist.
I am pretty experienced in open PvP roaming as I have done this for many years and would call myself a quite above average PvPer.

The last few days I have been join g a little bit in soloQ with fresh air builds, valk or berserk and several different dd builds. Even 0/0/20/20/30 cleric.

My experience tells me that my class in this gamemode is subpar to an extend where joining as an elementalist will put my team on a bad spot.

Having quite some experience from bunkering on my guardian, I was highly surpised, how easily a Necromancer or a Stunlockwarrior could put such high pressure on me, that I had to fight for my life instead of holding the point till teammates arrive.

Getting nerfed in heals, conditionremoves and stunbreakers while the heavy conditon classes experience a huge buff and the meta is all about being a stuntastic warrior seems very wrong to me. Having only access to stability on very high cooldowns while any necro can turn that into a fear and I cannot recognize a corrupt boon from an asura even if he stands right on me makes the experience very frustrating as I have the notion that I have to put everything into every fight to be at least a little efficient and other classes just have to pull their spirits or spam red circles on the ground to completely negate a point to me.

The information I got that this will stay like this until PAX is over, even though this seems to be the most broken meta ever and it hast been going on for quite a period of time, makes me feel a bit left alone by arenanet. Also I would like to call this decision not well thought. People are forced to leave their main characters due to meta. Even Phantaram and Xeph joined the bandwaggon of evade spamspamspam and conditionfaceroll.
Seeing how average they are on those toons and still overly efficient and successful just makes my point more obvious

It is wrong how in this game the balance is done and it probably killed the game for many players that this meta stayed for months just because “players wont have time to get used to new builds before PAX”. If they really cant, they dont even belong into PAX.

I will happily stay out of tPvP as I prefer roaming open wolrd in a small team anyway, but the Devs should start to realise the damage they have done to this game just to force ESL.

Please keep your l2p flames and dont tell me to play necro. I dont care :-).

Well, you’re not the only one. Results speak for themselves.

WvW is fine though, as we can build more efficiently for our roles.